15 unusual phrases to trigger your wanderlust

In this post, I want to share those phrases that will make anyone want to grab a suitcase and launch all to the air and undertake a journey with – or without – destination.

Traveling is a tool of self-knowledge that incorporates interpersonal knowledge, while at the same time strengthening self-esteem, survival skills (yes, if you don’t believe me, check out this nonsense). Wanderlust is a real state of mind, and mostly, a way of living.

Among the innumerable benefits of traveling, it teaches us to enjoy life, the here and now. It inspires us to be better people, to recognize cultural differences and to provide for similarities. Traveling brings us closer to nature, allowing us to understand, to explore and learn to take care of the environment. To travel is to realize that the world has been created to be discovered by our senses.

1. “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest; Their’s is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.”
― Robert W. Service

2.“Cover the earth before it covers you.”

— Dagobert D. Runes

3. “Adventure begins with a thought, decision, and action.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

4.“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
― Roman Payne

5.“She had a wild, wandering soul
But when she loved, she loved with chaos and that made all the difference.”
― Ariana Dancu

6.“How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.”

― Sarah Reijonen

7.“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that aren’t here.”
― Edna Ferber

8. “I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.”

— Faith Ringgold

9. “Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.”

— Diana Ambarsari

10. “Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little.”

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

11. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.”

— Gustave Flaubert

13. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

– Shirley MacLaine

14. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.”

— Carew Papritz

15. “Explore often. Only then you will know how small you are and how big the world is.”

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Travelling is about experiences: The discovery, the smells, the pictures…. And what a better way to travel than to meet local friends along the way and go beyond what you see in travel guides? Follow me to these incredible destinations and learn the story behind each location!